wtf does this have to do with Mac?
Nothing. It's just hate bait.
wtf does this have to do with Mac?
I think a big difference here is that, as I understand it, a Metro App (for lack of an updated term) will run on all systems - RT, Windows Pro, and Windows Phones. That's a pretty big deal to developers and consumers. WIll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Maybe it will look something like this? http://www.razerzone.com/projectfiona
Well unlike others I like your opinion. Because I had 4 give me the red rings or whatever. Though that really was just an early console problem. Haven't had a single error with my current console that I've had for a couple years. Were those consoles in the time frame when the xbox was released?
Well unlike others I like your opinion. Because I had 4 give me the red rings or whatever. Though that really was just an early console problem. Haven't had a single error with my current console that I've had for a couple years. Were those consoles in the time frame when the xbox was released?
Smart. If Microsoft makes this 1:1 compatible with the Xbox console, or even eliminates the console altogether. This is where gaming is headed; the upgrade cycles in consoles are too slow in dedicated gaming machines leaving mobile devices to rapidly gain ground there was no iPhone when either the Xbox or PS3 were released.
Read the power output. That's a console's specs. Not a tablets. Come on, Macrumors. Learn to read.
We bought three of them for family members and each one of them had the ring of death over the course of 3 years. Sent all three for a 130 dollar repair to Microsoft. Something about reseating the graphics card inside the box. Then they ran for a year and went kaput again. So they are all in the attic now.
While in partial agreement, the problem is not tablet gaming, but non-tablet games being "ported" to tablet environment. A different UI-paradigm calls for different kind of games. Sadly, far too many developers have yet to realize this.
Bringing the XBox to the Surface is one of the few things MS can do to differentiate itself from the other tablets and make it appealing to the younger gaming crowd.
However... how far can you go with a touch interface that will make it something so "wow" that everyone will have to have one? It will be interesting to see what they come up with... if the Surface is a "fail" MS is in trouble... or at least it should be Ballmer's last shot. Amazing he's survived this long given Vista and other missed opportunities.
This whole gaming on a "touch" device is getting tired. You can never get a control as precise as having real controls. Touching things can only get you so far.
I agree. But even if say your wrote a game tailored to touch devices how fine a control can you have over the game?
Touching and sliding your fingers over virtual controls is always not perfect.
Unless, the games don't need finer controls and just a binary state would suffice.
The best game for touch I can imagine is Nintendo's Mario - March of the mini's. All you do even there is draw ladders and undraw them. Its more of a logical game than say a game that needs fine controls.
And having downloaded a ton of them on the iPad, I can still say that no one has gotten it right yet. All of them get pretty boring or frustrating after a while.
MSFT is not in any trouble if the Surface is a dud. MSFT is in trouble if W8 is a dud. Big difference.
Let me answer your question with a question, why are "you" "designing around" the limitations of the ui-paradigm rather than "designing on" its strengths? If a tablet is limited in fine interactions, you should not create games depending on them. Simple, really. There are so many ways forward for touch gaming; clinging to old-world paradigms is not one of them. Its the equivalent of putting a ****ing desktop in a tablet computer (regardless of whether its done as in iOS or WinRT). Makes no sense*.
* In MSFTs defense, W8 tablets will mostly be hybrids, thus supporting dual modes of interacting. This is perfectly fine. The desktop metaphor still has uses. Good uses, i might add. But one needs to recognize that different things are indeed different.
I have been working on MSFT since OS/2 and while I liked their progression all along. Was really impressed with Windows 7 and it would be hard to argue that Mac OS is better.
Then.. I stumbled into Windows 8.. and I have to wonder.. What the heck is MS thinking. Its a new direction for their tablets, I agree. But to put it on a desktop? Even Apple has left the desktop intact minus the launchpad which is still an option.
MSFT is over doing it, IMHO.
Touch Gaming!! So all that marvelous screen and processing power to just tap on things? I think we have progressed from such a scenario since the 70's. No?
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You failed to address the question about console-generation. Were these early versions of the xbox?